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Doug Miller on using TinderBox to read his RSS feeds (BlogWeb), inspired by David Brin's Earth. Last night as I was reading I came to one of my favorite passages, a section where one of the characters is interacting with her computer system, reading mail and scanning news items her filters and clipping services have culled out of the fire hose of information that's constantly directed at her by the 'net of 2039. Brin's descriptions of the technologies she uses are wonderful. We're seeing the beginnings of some of what he describes in today's syndication, content aggregation and WebLog tools. This book is a great source for inspiration.